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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory

Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world. The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world. What you"ll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those

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6:30

Some distance from the city

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"The sound of a train in the distance on a quiet beautiful morning makes me think of possibility and freedom. But I was thinking about how others may hear something different, or it might not be a positive association for everyone, depending on how free you are, or what's truly possible. In the old days I had an idea of America and its wide open spaces as a place where people were free and everything was possible. Maybe it still is and maybe it never was. "There's a little musical sound, some kind

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2:58

Early morning, Savannah Garden City

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

It’s early morning in what seems to be a quiet suburb of Georgia. People are still asleep, but you the rumble of industry never stops, cars flying down nearby highways and the signalling and occasional hoots of trains passing through. The birds wake up and follow suit. Garden City is a city is known for its industrial hub and proximity to the Port of Savannah. The rumble of trains reminds you of this in the early morning in what would appear to be a very leafy suburb, with long verges, and tall

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3:29

I found the presence

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"This piece struck me because of the background drone of echoed speech and mechanical sounds with some melodic content (possibly an elevator chime, since looking into the site I found that the Hannover Rathaus has a well-known arched elevator that curves with the dome of the building). "I built the fundamentals of the piece around those notes and some audible German and English phrases, including the unlikely phrase that serves as the piece’s title. Somehow during the process, I got the notion

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4:45

Reverb in the Rathaus

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

A soundwalk around the heavily-reverbed impressive interior of Hannover's Neues Rathaus. Huge, reverby echo caused by the voices and footsteps of just a few visitors. Recorded by Cities and Memory, May 2025.

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5:48

Skye waves / Midnight mariner

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"Scotland has always had a strong pull on my imagination and I've always wanted to visit. This sound file was my first choice from the many offered by Cities & Memory for their Autumn Project. Coincidentally, this past summer, while vacationing with my family in Assateague, Virginia, I made a recording of the ocean shore while standing on the beach. When I began the Autumn Project, I decided to use both as a sort of bridge between my real life in the United States and my imagined life in

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5:42

Chirping into daylight

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

A dawn soundscape in the heart of Vietnam’s lowland forest, where the awakening of countless birds marks the start of a new day. The air fills with the diverse chorus of chirps, calls, and rustling, as various species gradually come to life. Cat Tien Park, Vietnam recorded by Rafael Diogo.

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4:46

Vienna drum and bass on a bike (liquid pedal remix)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"For this remix, I pulled out the most musical fragments of the original, like the bicycle bells, and turned them into looping motifs, then built an entirely new drum and bass track beneath them. I also reshaped the vocal sample into another loop and wove in select sound effects, like the crowd noise and a car starting, to preserve the atmosphere while giving the piece a fresh identity." Drum and bass at the 420 parade, Vienna reimagined by Rebecca Goldberg.

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1:48

Drum and bass on the bike

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

This is the recording I made by complete accident - we were coming back home with my girlfriend and when we came out of the metro station we heard loud music from behind, so we went to see what it was. I remembered that I'd seen the posters around town about the Drum and Bass on Bike event, which was supposed to be in support of the general 420 parade (cannabis legalization movement in general), and that was it. I quickly turned on my Tascam recorder and recorded what I could, as it was quite an

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2:19

Brooklyn carousel

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

This is a brief recording in May 2022 of the music from Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn, NY. I was just looking up the history of the Merry-Go-Round, which was built in 1922 for the Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio. So, by sheer coincidence this recording was made 100 years after the creation of the carousel. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York by Bill McKenna.

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4:58

Jane underwater

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"Resampled bit of carousel from my former home of Brooklyn gets a new life as this plaintive melody." Carousel in Brooklyn, New York reimagined by Anne Pope.

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2:10

The March of Light

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

The March of Light 2025 (Ukraine Support Demonstration in Vienna) This recording illustrates one of the crucial parts of the March of Light demonstration, which is basically a flash mob based on people showing and hiding their phones with flashlights turned on, which is then shared on social media to draw people's attention to the whole event, which is to support Ukraine in its war against its aggressor - the Russian Federation. The video with the results of this flash mob can be found on the

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3:02

Transmissie

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"The original field recording captures a street choir singing hymns. I transformed this material by processing it into dense, evolving layers of sound. One layer stretches the recording in time and feeds it through the Elta Music Solar 42F, allowing the choral textures to dissolve into a shimmering, otherworldly drone. "The result is a slow-moving, contemplative, and meditative soundscape that reimagines the choir’s presence in a new sonic frame." Ukrainian Easter celebration in Vienna reimagined

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5:50

Vietnam

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"The bird sounds of this recording have a particular cadence and repetition. It inspired me to create something that was more solid and continuous to accompany it. I created a drone composed of 4 sounds that intertwine with each other progressively. "This piece contains a binaural base frequency of 3.2 Hz so it is encouraged to listen on earphones to get the optimum effect. The piece is also tuned to 432Hz. And I played a Erhu on top of it. I mixed it very wide for a very profound and immersive

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4:30

Dripping water inside a sea cave

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

Inside a sea cave on a Cornish beach, recording dripping waves on different surfaces and at different distances, onto rock, into small puddles and directly onto sand, while the roar of the sea waves continues outside the cave. Recorded in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England by Cities and Memory, April 2025.

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5:05

Cicadas and katydids singing

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

Cicadas and katydids singing in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, 9 Aug 2013. This is a recording of the intense sounds of cicadas and katydids singing in the deep night. The recording was made using two condenser microphones in stereo array through a Mackie 12 track board directly to digital. Recorded by Dan Bodah.

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13:06

Aquatic reverberations from Cornwall to SoCal

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"Salt water reverberations and soundscapes are a daily and necessary embodied element of my life by and on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, Southern California. As a woman from Britain living in SoCal, I connect with the sea caves sounds in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England, being soothed and inspired by the rhythms, pitches, textures, and timbres of water drops, accompanied by the constant roar outside the sea caves. "With Cornish marine sounds I have added my daily ocean soundscapes: slaps of

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3:52

An intense calling

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"For this year’s Autumn Project, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with a sample collected near my original home. "“An Intense Calling” is field-recording-based piece based on a recording of cicadas and katydids in Dingman’s Ferry, PA collected by Dan Bodah. Growing up near the Delaware Water Gap on the other side in New Jersey, I was excited to think about both the feelings this recordings evoked in me, my memories of when I’ve heard the cicadas. I’ve combined this with my own

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4:57

Autumn drums

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"As soon as I heard the drum recording, I wanted to do something with it in the spirit of break chopping/dj tools. I love lots of 70s/80s/early 90s straight sample flips & it was an unusual opportunity to try something similar without butting up against copyright issues. "I chopped up the recording, added a little in the way of effects, and supplemented a simple electro beat. "I enjoy listening to it, & for me it's reminiscent of weaving through the energy of the very same square with my

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4:02

Magic hour at the Fairy Pools

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

Possibly the most visited spot on Skye are the Fairy Pools, a long chain of pools and small waterfalls coming down from the mountains - a truly stunning spot. We visit after most tourists have left, at around 8pm in the evening, to capture some close-up sound recordings without the presence of tourists. Recorded in Skye, Scotland by Cities and Memory, April 2025.

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5:20

Ever Is Over All by Pipilotti Rist

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

A video installation called "Ever Is Over All" by Pipilotti Rist (1997), at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin - haunting music loops over and over, while in the video the artist walks along the street, then smashes car windows using a model of a large flower. Recorded by Cities and Memory, September 2025.

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